Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...train carried enough technical gear to stock a sophisticated physics laboratory. To test how the jolts, noises and vibrations of railroad travel will affect the warheaded Minuteman, sensitive oscilloscopes and oscillographs registered every rock and wriggle. Loudspeakers and telephones linked the communications HQ with the other ten cars (one boxcar that housed a jeep, two tank cars for water and diesel fuel, seven air-conditioned "quarters cars"-including one with stereo set, radio, TV). When the train stopped, crewmen stepped out and limbered up, but could wander no farther than 150 yards-earshot range. A sharp command from the single...
...months of hard labor, they live in primitive villages and tackle man-sized jobs: a youth center in Senegal, a small hospital in Cameroon, a library in Liberia. To test their changing attitudes toward Africa, a researcher from M.I.T.'s Center for International Studies has gone along to travel from group to group talking to the students; he will later return to the villages to see what lingering impression the students have made on the Africans...
...year from U.C.L.A., where he is now seeking a master's degree in physical education. As an undergraduate he was a straight B student, president of the student body, a star basketball player. Johnson, 24, hopes to work for the U.S. State Department: ''I want to travel, meet people, teach them physical education, show them how we live in America." But in the meantime, he has only one concern: the 1960 Olympics. Says Johnson: "I'm prepared to win-whatever that takes." After last week's performance, few doubted he would. Said Oregon...
...says the Rev. Edgar Hallock of Norman, Okla., for the past 17 years a Baptist missionary in Brazil. But despite the hazards of holding a major Protestant meeting in the world's largest Roman Catholic country, and despite the travel difficulties for many delegates (average cost of participation to U.S. members: more than $2,000 each), the quinquennial Congress of the Baptist World Alliance last week wound up as the most impressive Baptist convention on record...
...students can finish college, go on to graduate school and embark on a profession while they are still quite young. As for the teachers, they can either earn one-third more money each year or, by working only two of the shortened semesters, find more time for research and travel. So far, Pitt has had no trouble signing up faculty members to staff the program...